{"nrhp_refnum":"00000773","name":"Lavaca Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Roughly bounded by S. Alamo St., S. Presa St., alley bet. Camargo St., Callahan Ave., Labor St., and Garfield Alley","address_restricted":false,"city":"San Antonio","county":"Bexar County","state":"TX","lat":29.411017471000065,"lon":-98.48823596998636,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2000-07-05","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Community Planning and Development"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A mixed-use, mostly residential neighborhood of about 39.5 acres roughly 3/4 mile south/southeast of downtown San Antonio, Bexar County, Texas, with a small commercial strip on South Alamo Street and a school cluster on Lavaca Street.","why_significant":"The district preserves a modest, working-class neighborhood developed from the 1870s to 1949, with caliche-block houses, wood-frame vernacular houses, bungalows, and commercial buildings. The form states it was never an affluent area, and its social fabric distinguishes it as a historic neighborhood. It has 88 contributing resources, including the previously listed Fourth Ward School.","narrative":"Lavaca Historic District is a roughly 39.5-acre neighborhood about three-quarters of a mile south of downtown San Antonio. It is mostly residential, with a small group of commercial buildings along South Alamo Street and a school complex on Lavaca Street. The oldest buildings are caliche-block houses from the 1870s and early 1880s, followed by wood-frame houses in two-room, L-plan, modified L-plan and hipped-roof forms, and later Craftsman-influenced bungalows. The commercial buildings, mostly from the 1890s and 1900s, are plain One- and Two-Part Commercial Blocks. Street patterns follow older Spanish Colonial acequias and land tracts called suertes. The district's period of significance runs from 1870 to 1949. Of 138 resources, 88 contribute to its character, including the Fourth Ward School, which is individually listed. Unlike the nearby King William district, Lavaca was never home to the city's elite, and its modest houses and social fabric define its historic importance.","period_of_significance":"1870-1949","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Bungalow/Craftsman; Classical Revival; Victorian Italianate; Two-Part and One-Part Commercial Block; L-plan and modified L-plan; no style","criteria":[],"status_note":"Most of the district remains in residential, commercial and government use. The form notes some vacant lots and parking lots, and says once-abandoned South Alamo commercial buildings are being re-occupied and revitalized.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:54:23.419595-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/49/9712/40971249/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_TX/00000773.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/40971249","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q109999638"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/texas/bexar-county/lavaca-historic-district-00000773/"}